How can we explain Cedric Jubilard’s silence and lies for so many years? Why did he finally decide to speak? Sincerity, too much mental workload, or calculated and strategic confessions aimed at reducing the sentence during a future appeal trial? France Télévisions analyzes the disaster.
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Cedric Jubillar appealed the verdict. His retrial is due to take place in Toulouse on September 21. His confessions and the discovery of bones in Tarn could, according to his lawyer, delay the trial by several months. “Given all the actions that need to be taken, the steps that need to be taken, the Cédric Jubillar hearing, it is completely impossible to continue this trial in September. It would be unreasonable and would be contrary to a fair trial.”– says I Pierre Debuisson, Cedric Jubillar’s lawyer.
For some relatives of the victim, nothing justifies postponing the hearing. “Today we have a body, we have a crime scene, as Cédric Jubillar will describe it when questioned before the jury foreman, so we have a case ready and we can make a decision in September.”For his part, Philippe Pressek, the lawyer of Delphine Ossagel’s cousin, evaluates me.
Delayed or not, Cédric Jubillar’s appeal trial will take place, this time with the defendant admitting responsibility for his wife’s death. But will the appeal court be convinced by his version of the quarrel and accidental death? According to Mé Isabelle Steyer, a lawyer at the Paris Bar who specializes in feminicides, it is primarily a strategy to persuade the jury. “What will the examination of the bones ultimately tell us about the cause of Delphine’s death? The result, as we know, is extremely random. Since we do not know the causes of death, since we do not know the conditions of death, I, Cédric Jubillar, once again impose my speech.”– she summarizes.
At first instance, Cedric Jubillar was sentenced to 30 years in prison. If the version of an accident is accepted, the maximum sentence will not exceed 20 years.